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 After our fabulous cruise vacation, my parents and I made our way back to my house.  The girls were all at school when we arrived, but that meant my dad could get right to work on his "daddy-do list". (There isn't really a list, but Dad likes to stay busy, so we always oblige and find something for him to do.)  :)   He started with installing our new light fixture in the dining room.  My mom helped him out so we installed it at the perfect height.

After school, Snow White had an out-of-town cross country meet.  We went to see it, but after a wrong turn, and some mis-communication with the school (read: NO communication from the school that the meet was not at the school, but in some obscure park corner in a strange town), we arrived just as Snow White was finished.  She looked cute, though, so we took a picture:

We spent the next couple of days hanging out, doing more home improvements, eating pizza, and going to a football game.  As always, we loved having them here, and were sorry when it was time for them to go back to real life.

Last Day in NYC

(We won't count the next day when we got up at 4 in the morning to catch an early flight...we were too sleepy to enjoy the cab ride and the airport.)

Tuesday was a rainy day, which was fine because we had decided to spend the morning at The Metropolitan Museum of Art.  We thought maybe that the rain would dissipate and we could walk around Central Park and go to The Shake Shack.  However, the museum is cavernous, and we loved our time there.  So much so, that we ended up eating in the cafeteria.  Twice.  Once we had our snacks we had brought with us, and once we paid an arm and a leg to eat there.  But, I must say, the food was actually really good, even though some of it came in a cardboard yellow cab. 

Now, posting a bunch of pictures of pictures seems like not such a great idea.  I mean, really, a little snapshot of a great work of art just doesn't do it justice.  Especially with a camera phone and no flash. But.  But, you just have to see some of the stuff we got to see.  And really, we explored a fraction of the museum.  It was great. 

Marie-Denise Villers

Sir Thomas Lawrence

Vermeer

The museum is so large that there are literally buildings inside the building.  

Tiffany Glass

 

 Monet

  Renoir

Seurat

Van Gogh

Picasso

Degas

And those pictures are just a handful of the amazing art we saw.  Next time I am in NYC, I plan to spend days and days there.  Honestly, there were sections of the museum we didn't even get close to.  And some we practically ran through to make it to another part of the museum.  

After the Met, we hopped on the Grayline to take us back to Broadway and Times Square.  We passed by some of Central Park and The Plaza Hotel.

Can you see the bird's nest in the light?

 We walked a little looking for someplace to eat.  For a minute, I felt like I was on Sesame Street.  Doesn't this just look like it?  Love those brownstones. 

We had some pizza and cheesecake, and then Lindsay joined us for our walk to Broadway and a show.  We saw Mary Poppins, and I must say, it really was practically perfect.  Loved it. 

And, isn't a show on Broadway the perfect way to end a few days in NYC?  I think so.  It was a great trip, and we can't thank Lindsay and Blake enough for their hospitality and help in making our visit to the city perfect.  It was a whirlwind trip, and while a bit exhausting, it was wonderful.  

Dad catching some rest on the train.  Thought the ad behind him was so funny.

Our last subway ride of the trip--home from the show.